Critics have made their selection of the worst videos of 2024, which include films starring Chris Pine, Dennis Quaid, Zack Snyder and even Mickey Mouse.
While Hollywood has given enthusiasts plenty of reasons to rejoice with critical hits like Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine and Longlegs – and more recently films like The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and Nosferatu – the film industry has also produced its share of flops. critics. . Training
Some of the films that met the ire of critics were big-budget films, while others were independent films that featured the work of A-list stars.
Below are some of the films critics find on their “worst” lists of 2024.
Variety movie critics Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge each had a list of that they thought were the five worst movies that played in theaters in 2024.
Gleiberman’s choice for the fifth worst film of the year, Lisa Frankenstein, directed by Zelda Williams, daughter of film icon Robin Williams, and written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Juno Diablo Cody.
Gleiberman wrote of the monster-themed romantic comedy: “It’s a slasher romance between undead teens that feels like the most unnecessarily confusing SNL comic strip in the world. “
The End, a survival comedy starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, took the fourth position on Gleiberman’s list of worst films, while Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as President Ronald Regan, took the third position.
“Released just in time to grease the wheels of Trump’s victory, this Ronald Reagan biopic was a hit in theaters and aimed at an audience of TV nostalgists,” Gleiberman wrote of the film.
Gleiberman isn’t the only one to criticize Reagan. La film also scored a collective “rotten” score of 18% from 68 critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but that didn’t deter audiences from watching the film.
No. 2 on the Variety critic’s list was the genre-mashing satire Rumours, starring Cate Blanchett, while Chris Pine earned the dishonorable distinction of making the No. 1 worst film on Gleiberman’s list with Poolman.
“Even if you’re a fan of Chris Pine, you can be blown away by this absurd crisis of a Los Angeles noir film that he directed, co-wrote, and starred in,” the critic wrote on VarietyArray.
Variety critic Peter Debruge named the Netflix-produced sci-fi work Rebel Moon: Director’s Cut as his pick for the fifth worst film of 2024.
“Honestly, can you think of anything more gratuitous or unnecessary than a two-part Star Wars knockoff directed by pop-culture remix artist Zack Snyder? How about a bloodier (but weirdly sexless) six-hour director’s cut of that same movie,” Debruge wrote.
Number four on the list is Debruge, the big screen adaptation of Crockett Johnson’s old children’s book, Harold and the Purple Crayon, starring Zachary Levi. Meanwhile, writer-director Johnny Mack’s devout film parodies Not Another Church Movie, starring Vivica A. Fox. and Mickey Rourke – ranked third on the list of “worst” critics.
No. 2 on Debruge’s list was the Mickey Mouse-skewering horror movie The Mouse Trap, the latest film to brutally take advantage of a beloved character becoming available to slice and dice in the public domain, a la Winnie-the-Pooh.
“The film doesn’t give any scares and raises countless questions, such as why can he teleport and why would he scream after seeing a guy in a Mickey Mouse mask?” asks Debruge in his review.
No. 1 on Debruge’s worst movies list is writer-director Luc Besson’s crime thriller DogMan, starring Caleb Landry Jones.
“Besson’s third-rate Joker scam is ill-conceived at every turn: a complicated act of misplaced empathy in which a police psychologist struggles to tame a deeply traumatized stranger who has literally been raised in a doghouse,” Debruge wrote.
While some individual critics have named the worst videos of 2024, review collection sites like Metacritic have also compiled a list of the worst videos that theaters had to create in the last year.
Metacritic’s list included 15 films, high-profile animated films like The Garfield Movie (No. 14) and the disastrous remake of The Crow starring Bill Skarsgård (No. 13).
Also making Metacritic’s “worst” movies list was director Eli Roth’s adaptation of the blockbuster video game Borderlands (No. 8) and Marvel’s movie dud Madame Web (No.6), starring Dakota Johnson.
The difficult to understand sci-fi horror comedy Lumina ranked highest on Metacritic’s list of the worst films of 2024, which included only one notable caller, Eric Roberts, who only made an impression in a cameo.
Metacritic’s summary of the film stated that it is the only film to achieve a single-digit Metascore rating (6 out of 100) for the entire year.
“You can laugh at parts of Lumina (critics actually did, though they noted the humor was unintentional), however, the roughly two-hour film is probably too long to justify watching,” the summary reads in part. from Metacritic.
Here is the complete list of Metacritic’s 15 worst in 2024, along with their respective Metascores.
15. Killer heat (33)
14. The Garfield Movie (31)
13. The Raven (30)
12. The man in the pool (29)
11. Fear (28)
10. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (27)
9. Maria (27)
8. Borderlands (26)
7. History of Evil (26)
6. Mrs. Web (26)
5. Krazy House (23)
4. Reagan (22)
3. Duchess (22)
2. City of dreams (14)
1. Lumina (6)
While Rotten Tomatoes didn’t release a list citing the worst films of 2024, a search of the site reveals that the review aggregator did give one film a 0% “rotten” rating this year.
The Sylvester Stallone action film Armor earned the lowly score—based on 23 reviews—when it was released in November.
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